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Check out the Map of Public Gardens on the NCSU Gardening Portal
* Click on a marker for detailed information about that garden.
* Use the zoom tool on the left to focus in on a particular area or to view a larger area.
* Click and drag to reposition the view.
* Click a type of garden in the key to view only gardens of that type.
* Scroll down below the full size map for an alphabetical listing of gardens.

Check out the Map of Public Gardens on the NCSU Gardening Portal
* Click on a marker for detailed information about that garden.
* Use the zoom tool on the left to focus in on a particular area or to view a larger area.
* Click and drag to reposition the view.
* Click a type of garden in the key to view only gardens of that type.
* Scroll down below the full size map for an alphabetical listing of gardens.

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Therapeutic Horticulture Portal
Horticultural therapy is a dynamic intervention that uses nature-based activities to promote learning and healing. This website was designed to serve participants and their families, volunteers interested in supporting programs, interns seeking professional certification as well as professionals and service providers interested in offering therapeutic horticulture opportunities.

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Subscribe to the Extension Gardener email listserv to receive notification when new editions of the newsletter have been posted to the Extension Gardener Portal .
Extension Gardener is a quarterly newsletter written by horticultural experts across the state with regional editions focused on the North Carolina coastal plain, mountains, and piedmont.

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantbiology/ncsc/Coastal_Planting_Guide.pdf
Funded by the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and developed through a collaboration between the US Fish & Wildlife Service and researchers at the North Carolina State University Herbarium, as well as numerous partners, including the Beach Vitex Task Force, the North Carolina, Aquarium, and Sea Grant.
To request a hard copy, please contact:Dale Suiter (USFWS)
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantbiology/ncsc/Coastal_Planting_Guide.pdf[/caption]

NCSU’s 16th Vermiculture Conference August 10-11, 2015, Raleigh, NC LOCATION: NC State University at the Hunt Library (ranked Second Most Amazing College Library in the U.S.A) WEBSITE: http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/workshops/worm_conference Currently contains information from last year’s conference MORE »Posted: Today

Check out this wonderful tool for diagnosing problems with strawberry plants. Check off symptoms that you have seen and narrow the list of potential causes. A great tool for troubleshooting in the MORE »Posted: 2/13/15

The Eighth Annual Growing In Place Symposium: Green Neighborhood Assets: Streets, Houses, Schools, Parks, Food. March 5, 2015 at the Marbles Kids Museum, Raleigh, NC Families with children not wanting to move to low-density MORE »Posted: 2/13/15

Kicking off with a tour of Orchid Trail greenhouses. The Winter meeting of the Carolinas Horticulture Therapy Network convened at JC Raulston Arboretum. For more information on the network see our facebook MORE »– from Therapeutic HorticulturePosted: 2/8/15

Temperatures may still be brisk but it is already time to start planning and planting your spring vegetable garden. Garden peas and their relatives, snow peas and sugar snaps, are among the earliest MORE »– from Chatham County CenterPosted: 1/28/15

Get all the dirt on edible community, school and child care gardens, urban ag and growing greener, friendlier communities! Registration is open! How do you start a community garden—at church, at work, in your MORE »Posted: 1/26/15

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